Sarasota highlights from the Bobcat Relays

Here is how the distance runners for the Sarasota track and field teams performed at the Bobcat Relays on Friday at North Port High School:

4x1600 - Girls
The girls won the 4x1600 in 21 minutes,, 48 seconds, which broke a 24-year old school record and meet record. Previous school record was 23:34 in 1990 and the meet record was in 2012 with 22:34 by Riverview High.

The runners were Sage Lyons with 5:36, Mackenzie Brown with 5:26, Angelina Grebe with 5:28, and Emily Harding with 5:17. North Port came in second with 22:16. It was the first time Lyons, Brown and Harding ran 1,600 in an official meet.

4x1600 - Boys
The boys also won the 4x1600 in 18:37, which also broke the school record of 18:48 set in 1990. The runners were Brandon Drumm (5:41), Brian Kerry (5:50), Adam Bradtmuller (4:32) and Zack Summerall (5:34). Bradtmuller broke away from Riverview on his third lap and Summerall kept the lead throughout his race. Riverview ran 18:59 to finish second.

4x800 - Girls
North Port won with 10:08

4x800 - Boys
Port Charlotte won with 8:30.

Girls - distance medley relay
In the distance medley relay (1,200-400-800-1,600) Sarasota took first in 13:08 by 29 seconds over North Port. Lyons (2:39 in 800), Brown (63 seconds in 400), Grebe (4:03 in 1,200) and Harding (5:22 in 1,600) established the meet record by 14 seconds previously held by Riverview.

Boys - distance medley relay
The Sailors again broke the school record and meet record in 10:54, defeating North Port by 19 seconds. The school record was only a year old where last year the boys ran 11:08 at the Bobcat Invitational. The meet record was held by Charlotte in 11:05. Bradtmueller ran the 1200 in 3:22, Jake LeBlanc ran the 400 in 51.2 seconds, Drumm ran the 800 in 2:09, and Summerall again ran the 1,600 pretty much by himself in 4:31.

Other Sarasota highlights: Corey Williams won the long jump with leap of 22 feet, 1 inch. Next closest was 21-9. … The 800 meter sprint medley (100-100-200-400) team of Dominique Austin (100), Corey Williams (100), Shawn Bane Jr. (200) and LeBlanc (400) set a school and meet record with a winning time of 1:39.12 which is a new school record and meet record. The previous school record was 1:40.6 in 2008 and the meet record was 1:39.68 held by Port Charlotte in 2011.

Last modified: February 23, 2014
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